Training Centre Hervey Bay

19/02/2026

🔥 Training Centre Hervey Bay – Now Under New Ownership! 🔥

We’re excited to announce that Training Centre Hervey Bay is now proudly owned and operated by Catherine & Jeremy Annetts.

With decades of real-world frontline experience, our training is built on practical knowledge — not just theory.

👩‍⚕️ Catherine Annetts brings extensive experience as a Registered Nurse, working across remote settings, hospital environments, and clinical practice on Hamilton Island. Her hands-on medical background ensures our First Aid and CPR training is realistic, current, and confidence-building.

👨‍🚒 Jeremy Annetts brings over 25 years of experience as a firefighter, including service as a contractor and with Fire and Rescue NSW, and as Chief Fire Officer on Hamilton Island. His operational leadership and frontline emergency response experience underpin our fire, warden, and emergency management training.

Together, we are committed to delivering high-quality, practical, and compliant training in:
✅ First Aid & CPR
✅ Fire Warden & Chief Warden
✅ Fire Safety Advisor (FSA)
✅ Emergency Response & Workplace Safety

Our focus is simple: real experience, practical skills, and training that prepares you for real emergencies.

📍 Based in Hervey Bay
📞 Contact us today to book your next course

08/02/2026

Hello to all of my past clients
Not sure if you will get this
Myself Glenn and my wife Shirley
Have retired I am pretty close to 70
Jeremy and Catherine Annetts will be taking over the company
We wish them well in their endeavours

30/01/2026

How Does Intra Nasal Medications Work?
Intranasal medications work by delivering drugs directly into the bloodstream through the nasal passages. This method bypasses the liver's first-pass metabolism, which is the process where drugs are broken down before they reach the systemic circulation. The nasal cavity's rich vascularization and thin mucosa allow for quick absorption, often resulting in a rapid onset of action.
First-Pass Metabolism Bypass: The intranasal route avoids first-pass metabolism in the liver, increasing a drug's bioavailability and contributing to its faster action compared to oral administration.
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Direct Vascularization: The nasal cavity's extensive vascularization facilitates swift absorption into the systemic circulation.
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Direct-to-Brain Delivery: For certain CNS-targeted drugs, the intranasal route offers a direct pathway to the brain via the olfactory nerve, bypassing the blood-brain barrier.

01/01/2026

Using logic not perpetuating old First Aid statements Eye Injuries
In the case of embedded objects or penetrating eye injury, the common advice has always been to bandage both the injured AND the uninjured eye. The rationale was conjugate gaze; if one eye moves, so does the other (we can’t move each eye independently like chameleons).
However, we now know that while our eyes do track together they also react to sound and other stimuli. There is actually more eye movement when vision is occluded, especially in children. There is no need to routinely bandage both eyes, unless both eyes are injured. Maintaining vision allows the patient to function and limits overall eye movement. Also, the eye moves more when closed than when opened, thus potentially doing more internal damage than of the uninjured eye were allowed to stay un-occluded.

01/01/2026

Information on battery ingestion
For suspected button battery ingestion, the new first aid is to immediately call emergency services (000 in Australia, 911 in US/Canada) and, while en route to the hospital, give 2 teaspoons (10mL) of honey or jam every 10 minutes (up to 6 doses) to children over 1 year old, or jam/sucralfate for infants under 1 year, to neutralize the battery's electrical burn; do not induce vomiting, give anything else by mouth, or delay medical care. This honey/jam protocol buys time but doesn't replace urgent medical removal, which is crucial for preventing severe tissue damage, especially within 12 hours of ingestion.
Immediate Actions (While Waiting for Help)
Call for Help: Call 000 (Australia) or your local emergency number immediately.
Honey/Jam (for >1 year old): Give 10mL (2 teaspoons) of honey or jam every 10 minutes until you reach the hospital.
Jam/Sucralfate (for

31/12/2025

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14/12/2025

Hello Folks
I was just reading a training organizations guidelines on management of spinal injuries
They referred to
C Collars cervical collars hopefully not stiff necks and hopefully soft collars
Why stiff neck collars those horrible plastic ones
Which we were forced to apply for many years when I was in the Ambulance Service for 3 decades
Were finally established to be perhaps contributing to the very injuries they were supposed to prevent
What did the Ambulance do ?
Go back to using soft collars a good choice
Now backboards
These horrible flat plastic boards that did nothing to support the spine think about the spines natural curves
Things like backboards not a good choice
Or perhaps a scoop
Should be used for extrication only
Not leaving a footy player on for hours waiting for an ambulance
The best is a full body vacuum splint
That conforms beautifully to the spinous process
If your training organisation RTO has these devices in their training packages
They need to be very clear on the significant limitations of these devices and use the correct terminology
For those who are interested this link has a very interesting article

Reflexively placing a patient in spinal immobilization can adversely affect breathing and airway management, but do those possibilities outweigh the dangers of not immobilizing? Reflexively placing a patient in spinal immobilization can adversely affect breathing and airway management, but do those....

07/12/2025

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18/11/2025

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08/11/2025

Hey First Aiders
I have this conversation on every course
Motorbike rider in a crash
Should I remove the helmet
Conscious breathing rider
Probably if they ask insist you take it off
Advise of possible spinal injury potential

Unconscious not breathing
You need to remove the helmet

Ok the last one of confusion

Unconscious motorbike rider breathing normally / adequately
Hmm how about using physiology
Firstly unconscious and breathing NOW!!!
Probably not for long
If you are UNCONSCIOUS
How much control do you have over your tongue falling back and occluding the airway
NONE!!! It is now the MAJOR cause of hypoxia
Two
When you are unconscious your sphincter at the top of your stomach has lost its muscle tone
Just before they went on the ride they stopped at the pub had a pizza and a pot of beer
Now they are on their back supine the sphincter is relaxed
Where is the stomach contents going Quietly into their airway and lungs
You leave them on their back thinking you are clever
They MIGHT have a spinal injury they are now dead from hypoxia and aspiration
Good job you are really clever
Nice straight spine in the morgue
Whats the first thing the Paramedics do when they get there
Remove the helmet
Like you should have done 20 minutes ago
Just do manual in line spinal immobilisation
Carefully remove the helmet minimising lateral and rotational movement
This is an easy skill to master
Then perhaps with bystanders gently place on their side using M.I.L.S
With postural drainage head facing slightly lower minimising aspiration
Then a thorough heads to toe to look for other injuries
Injured side down for rib injuries and ? fractured skull
To minimise if there is bleeding a rise in intra cranial pressure
If you ride a motorbike install an eject helmet removal device
Sorry guys
I guess there are lots of what ifs

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29/10/2025

Revised myths and misconceptions in First Aid Training video

25/10/2025

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